Richard Norman Shaw practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Richard Norman Shaw as British architect and designer (1831–1912).
Richard Norman Shaw was born at Edinburgh in 1831. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He trained at Royal Academy of Arts.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Richard Norman Shaw died in 1912, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Royal Academy of Arts
